The Practices of School Middle Leadership Leading Professional Learn
This book uses practice theory to examine the role of ‘middle-leadership’. In particular, it investigates the practices of ‘leading in the middle’ in the cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political domains – i.e., the sayings, doings and
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The Practices of School Middle Leadership Leading Professional Learning
The Practices of School Middle Leadership
Peter Grootenboer
The Practices of School Middle Leadership Leading Professional Learning
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Peter Grootenboer School of Education Griffith University Gold Coast, QLD Australia
ISBN 978-981-13-0766-9 ISBN 978-981-13-0768-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0768-3
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Foreword
So, one might ask, why another book on educational leadership? And why middle leading? This book is first and foremost about education-understanding it, leading it, practicing it and changing it. At the outset, Peter Grootenboer establishes the ways that education is a place for formation and transformation, of generation and regeneration. It is a societal expectation; at the same time, it is a place of renewal and development. Those in education-whether they be the student, the teacher, the principal, the researcher and indeed policymakers and community membersparticipate in practices that generate new ways of life for people to foster those in societies ‘to live well in a world worth living in’.1 Although those in educational sites take on varying responsibilities for what happens in actual places, under the particular circumstances and conditions in which they occur, Peter leads us into considering issues that require a different take on leading for professional learning and change. He looks at this central concern from a middle vantage point asking us to consider the central quest
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